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I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.
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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.
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I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always get nice letters back telling me that Mr. Shawn [William Shawn, the New Yorker's editor from 1952 to 1987] just didn't like this or didn't like that about what I submitted.
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I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that way.
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I was not shoe. That's a misuse of the term shoe, which is derived from white shoe.
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I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
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Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.
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I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if he has a vein I fantasize about shooting up with him.
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It's always been hard to be gay in Washington.
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When one person mentors, two lives are changed.
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To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.
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I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.
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I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.
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If there was criticism about [Oscar Wilde], it was because it was written by a straight man who wasn't very educated about the gay world.
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[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was a city upon a hill, which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.
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[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.
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If someone had come up to me at Yale and asked me how many homosexuals there were in my class, I would have said I don't think there are any. There may have been a few who were shy with girls. You have to understand, this was the 1950s.
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When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David.
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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts.
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I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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